Integrative Materials Design Center

iMdc's vision and mission are to define, disseminate, and implement a new design paradigm and supporting methodologies for failure prevention and increased performance, reliability, and recyclability. Design is based on material-process-component integration for common and seamless utilization in high-integrity applications across all manufacturing sectors. Successful design integration is achieved through:* Building connectivity within the field of Materials Science and ensuring material-process and material-material compatibilities * Creating interdisciplinary bridges between Materials Science, Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and other related disciplines and establishing material-properties-performance correlations * Designing materials from a green processing perspective and incorporating recycling as a design factor * Integrating knowledge across multi-scales, from nano to macro * Transferring knowledge and lab experience to real structures * Developing predictive analytical and computational design models validated by experimental data * Developing and implementing NDE techniques for early damage detection and monitoring * Constructing consistent and connective databases and reliability diagrams * Providing advanced design tools and strategies, Roadmaps, for general use in all manufacturing industries and beyond.